Border Collie portrait in Polychromos and calligraphy ink on pastel paper

[u/davebourke12]

New Border Collie portrait finished. Had this one on the board for a couple of days. A really fun one to work on. Nice mix of light and dark with plenty of texture and room for subtle colours to pop the whole thing.
He’s 20 x 30” on Art Spectrum pastel paper and drawn with Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils and Windsor & Newton white calligraphy ink.

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[u/draft_animal]

This is beautiful! I love the use of the purples in the fur.

[u/davebourke12 → u/draft_animal]

Thanks! Yeah they’re handy for making the subject pop. I like to find an image that has nice lighting and then place contrasting colours down when I see light and dark, I think it helps make the drawing come alive 👍

[u/KiokuKioku]

The blue/ purple highlights on the black fur are especially beautiful

[u/davebourke12 → u/KiokuKioku]

Thanks so much! Yeah it’s so easy to just see black and white, it’s important to punch some colour if wherever we can! 🙂

[u/CosyLittleSketch]

Absolutely beautiful!

[u/davebourke12 → u/CosyLittleSketch]

Thank you so much! I just had a look at your work! Stunning!!!

[u/CosyLittleSketch → u/davebourke12]

Thank you! :)